JULY KEY FIGURES

		Jul 19	Jun 19 to Jul 19	Jul 18 to Jul 19
		no.	%	%
TREND
	Total dwelling units approved	13 543	-3.2	-24.0
	Private sector houses	8 344	-1.0	-15.3
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	4 920	-7.3	-36.5
SEASONALLY ADJUSTED
	Total dwelling units approved	12 944	-9.7	-28.5
	Private sector houses	8 274	-3.3	-16.6
	Private sector dwellings excluding houses	4 420	-18.4	-44.2

Dwelling units approved

Private sector houses approved

JULY KEY POINTS


TOTAL DWELLING UNITS

• The trend estimate for total dwellings approved fell 3.2% in July.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for total dwellings approved fell 9.7% in July.

PRIVATE SECTOR HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector houses approved fell 1.0% in July.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector houses fell 3.3% in July.

PRIVATE SECTOR DWELLINGS EXCLUDING HOUSES

• The trend estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 7.3% in July.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate for private sector dwellings excluding houses fell 18.4% in July.

VALUE OF BUILDING APPROVED

• The trend estimate of the value of total building approved fell 1.0% in July and has fallen for four months. The value of residential building fell 1.9% and has fallen for 19 months. The value of non-residential building rose 0.3% and has risen for 11 months.
• The seasonally adjusted estimate of the value of total building approved fell 7.3% in July. The value of residential building fell 5.4%, while the value of non-residential building fell 9.9%.

NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE	Release Date
July 2019 - Additional	6 September 2019
August 2019	1 October 2019
August 2019 - Additional	9 October 2019
September 2019	31 October 2019
September 2019 - Additional	7 November 2019
October 2019	2 December 2019

DATA NOTES

In this release, revisions are provided for the time period from July 2018 to June 2019. Further information about potential sources of revisions can be found in the feature article released with the January 2016 8731.0 publication - "Revisions to Building Approval Statistics".

Small area data cubes and CSV files will be made available in an “Additional Information” release five business days after the main publication. These will be for Statistical Area Level 2 and Local Government Areas. Release dates are published under the “Forthcoming Issues” section of the publication and in ABS Release Advice.

Important changes to Victoria's building permit application process commenced on 1 July 2019. These changes affect the Building Act 1993 (Vic.) and the Building Regulations 2018. More information about the changes can be found on the Victorian Building Authority website.

A number of time series spreadsheets contain ‘np’ (not available for publication) annotations. This is due to confidential data being contained in these series.


REVISIONS THIS MONTH

Revisions to the total number of dwelling units approved in the July 2019 issue are:

Dwellings	2018-19
NSW	158
Vic.	59
Qld	72
SA	10
WA	49
Tas.	25
NT	-
ACT	-9
Total	364

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